Olivier Manitara was born in France, in 1964. Not having received any religious formation, it is by reading the sacred texts of humanity that he discovers by himself the existence of a primordial Tradition common to all the traditions of the peoples.Later on, he will call it the Essene Tradition, carried for all time by the People of the Essenes, also called the Children of the Light, notably in the manuscripts of the Dead Sea discovered in Palestine, in the middle of the last century.
From his earliest years, Olivier Manitara has mystic experiences and makes discoveries which correspond closely to those of the great sages and authentic guides of humanity who have given a body to the universal Tradition of the Essenes.
From then on, that Tradition becomes for him like a loving mother that nourishes his inner life and shows him the path of beauty, dignity, audaciousness and greatness through the lives of the great Masters of the Essene Tradition such as Krishna, the Buddha, Jesus, Mani.
Year after year, Olivier Manitara goes through all the stages of the initiation to Divine mastery, and becomes in his turn a Father of the Essene Tradition, an authentic Master, a guide and a benefactor of humanity. Recognized as such by the custodians of his Tradition in several peoples, he becomes in 2007 the Founding Father of the Essene Nation and the world representative of the Essene People.
In 2006, by his Covenant with the four Archangels who created the universe and inspired the creation of the greatest human civilizations, Olivier Manitara creates the Circle of the Archangels.
It is the birth of a new way of being in the world, a new art of living in harmony with nature, the universe and the Divine world through a universal practice and knowledge that completely revolutionize contemporary religion and spirituality.
From this Circle of the Archangels a new Gospel is being born, the Essene Gospel of the Archangels, which marks a decisive and irreversible turning point in the Essene Tradition and the beginning of a new era for the whole of humanity and the earth.
A forefront cultural creative, an active messenger of the Manifesto for Peace recognized by UNESCO, Olivier Manitara is also an outstanding artist. He is the author and composer of hundreds of sacred songs and dances. Those are true masterpieces which enter the magical chain of the great souls that united with a Divine world out of a pure love for humanity and the earth to bring them the harmony of the cosmos and balance the disharmony into which humanity is plunged. That sublime work represents a large contribution to the worldwide heritage of wisdom and a precious legacy for the future generations and all the traditions of the peoples.
In 2002, Olivier Manitara creates the Energy Mandalas. That is the emergence of a new Feng Shui, totally revolutionary and perfectly adapted to our era and the Western civilization.
That new Western Feng Shui finds its full accomplishment in the Essene Villages, which are true sanctuaries of the Mother-Earth where all the kingdoms of nature are respected and honoured for what they are: friends of man on the path of evolution of the consciousness and ennoblement of the soul. The Essene Villages, a front rank humanitarian and ecological realization, have been inspired by Olivier Manitara to form oases of peace and harmony at the heart of the ever increasing and invading desert of our present world.
Olivier Manitara is the author of more than 40 books and 150 works of formation, and of more than a thousand improvised lectures on the most varied subjects, dealing with all the areas of the life of men and the earth from a point of view completely innovative and yet based on a millenary wisdom.
Around the colossal work of Olivier Manitara, were created the Essenia Foundation, in Canada, recognized as a charitable organization by the Canadian government, and shortly after its European office, Essenia Europe, which work for the diffusion and safeguard of the Essene wisdom in the whole world.